There is No Planet B takes in such topics as our food, energy and transportation systems, as well as technology, business, work and the values we aspire to live by.Īs Berners-Lee explains in the book’s introduction, we are now in a position where ‘if we don’t try hard enough NOT to, we will wreck the whole environment’. It recaps some of the material in TBQ, but ranges much more widely. (TBQ, co-authored with Duncan Clark, is now sadly out of print.)Īn academic at the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University, Berners-Lee’s latest book is ‘an evidence-based practical guide to the make or break choices’ we now face in responding to our current environmental crises. I personally know of several campaigners who joined the fossil fuel divestment movement directly after reading it. Mike Berners-Lee’s 2013 book The Burning Question (TBQ), co-authored with Duncan Clark, provided a fantastic in-depth primer on the urgent need for the world to quit its addiction to fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) and the forces that continue to prevent us from doing so.Īs such, it remains a must-read title for anyone involved in the climate change movement.
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